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MARIO J. TORRES
IF-I-HAD-NOT...
It will never be easy for any kind
of people, anywhere in the world and on any stage of the history of mankind
to leave their homes, place of birth, traditions, habits, culture and social
or professional status to try their luck in a new and unknown land just for
the sake of liberty and for a better standard of living, escaping from a
ruthless and unbearable economical, social and political dictatorship like
the one in Cuba to also face a new language, a different climate, opposite
lifestyles and values, different foods, loneliness, social isolation, home
sickness, loss of family bonds, loss of professional identity and even
discrimination; all this bringing about deep depression, frustration a
sensation of banishment and in many cases a sad non-assimilation of the new
environment and new feelings and reactions of defense at the unknown which
all slide underneath the facade of material goals achieved in an endless
race for progress to make up for all time lost in the island and most of the
time, the obstacles sorted out in Cuba appear here strangely again with
another dimension and disguise as if history were once more repeated and 2
dragons should be killed instead of one.
All this has happened to the Cuban people, marked with this curse for more
than 40 years; the above expressed to the lucky ones who were able to leave
the island at that price but with worse results for the ones who have stayed
because apart from undergoing all the hardships, misery and repression of
the system, these keep dreaming with that promised land and sometimes
overestimate it, thinking that they can transfer all their good and positive
values with no change in the transition.
As a strange phenomenon, almost every Cuban in and out of the island has
given up the hope to be free due to so many years of repression and fear for
retaliation and also, in their deepest and innermost beliefs, their leader
apart from being hated, is also feared, respected, regarded as a God and
even admired at the same time by some of his enemies and is placed in a
position as if haunted or protected by invincible saints or spirits, so
nobody sees an independence day near any more and some even fear that the
system will prolong after the dictator's death.
World History coincidences and facts sometimes seem responsible for Cuba's
fate in human disaster and this historical chain of cause and effect
phenomena already makes the island's destiny inevitable. This would look
like a children's sequence "If-I-had-not..." game when we remember that
Hitler invaded the communist USSR and when he was almost defeated and the
Red Army was forcing the Germans to withdraw to Berlin, the Russian Soviets
liberated the countries on their way to Germany such as Poland, Romania,
Czecholovaquia, Bulgaria and Hungary from the nazi rule but at the same time
made them slaves again to a new regime: Communism. This created the
so-called Socialist or Communist field in which the Russian system was
spread and strengthened with the acquisition of these new puppet governments
obtained as war trophies and this new trend or policy later stimulated
persons like Fidel Castro to do the same in America and what is more and
worse, to receive the support from those Eastern European countries for
almost 30 years, so concluding, and for many other reasons of similarity,
Hitler gave way to the appearance of Fidel Castro as his heir, decades
later. This heir, as a contradiction with his predecessor, instead of
praising his race, which was also a sad sin, appears to enjoy humiliating
it, destroying it and making it inferior before the whole world in his
seemingly never-stopping race for keeping the power.
MARIO J TORRES
FEBRUARY 2004
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